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ATAC-Seq Identifies Regions of Open Chromatin in the Bronchial Lymph Johnston et al. BMC Genomics (2021) 22:14 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-07268-5 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access ATAC-Seq identifies regions of open chromatin in the bronchial lymph nodes of dairy calves experimentally challenged with bovine respiratory syncytial virus Dayle Johnston1, JaeWoo Kim2, Jeremy F. Taylor2, Bernadette Earley1, Matthew S. McCabe1, Ken Lemon3, Catherine Duffy3, Michael McMenamy3, S. Louise Cosby3 and Sinéad M. Waters1* Abstract Background: Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (BRSV) is a cause of Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD). DNA-based biomarkers contributing to BRD resistance are potentially present in non-protein-coding regulatory regions of the genome, which can be determined using ATAC-Seq. The objectives of this study were to: (i) identify regions of open chromatin in DNA extracted from bronchial lymph nodes (BLN) of healthy dairy calves experimentally challenged with BRSV and compare them with those from non-challenged healthy control calves, (ii) elucidate the chromatin regions that were differentially or uniquely open in the BRSV challenged relative to control calves, and (iii) compare the genes found in regions proximal to the differentially open regions to the genes previously found to be differentially expressed in the BLN in response to BRSV and to previously identified BRD susceptibility loci. This was achieved by challenging clinically healthy Holstein-Friesian calves (mean age 143 ± 14 days) with either BRSV inoculum (n = 12) or with sterile phosphate buffered saline (PBS) (n = 6) and preparing and sequencing ATAC- Seq libraries from fresh BLN tissues. Results: Using Diffbind, 9,144 and 5,096 differentially accessible regions (P < 0.05, FDR < 0.05) were identified between BRSV challenged and control calves employing DeSeq2 and EdgeR, respectively. Additionally, 8,791 chromatin regions were found to be uniquely open in BRSV challenged calves. Seventy-six and 150 of the genes that were previously found to be differentially expressed using RNA-Seq, were located within 2 kb downstream of the differentially accessible regions, and of the regions uniquely open in BRSV challenged calves, respectively. Pathway analyses within ClusterProfiler indicated that these genes were involved in immune responses to infection and participated in the Th1 and Th2 pathways, pathogen recognition and the anti-viral response. There were 237 differentially accessible regions positioned within 40 previously identified BRD susceptibility loci. Conclusions: The identified open chromatin regions are likely to be involved in the regulatory response of gene transcription induced by infection with BRSV. Consequently, they may contain variants which impact resistance to BRD that could be used in breeding programmes to select healthier, more robust cattle. Keywords: ATAC-Seq, BRSV, Bovine respiratory disease, Dairy calves, Open chromatin, Gene regulation * Correspondence: [email protected] 1Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Grange, Co. Meath, Ireland Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. Johnston et al. BMC Genomics (2021) 22:14 Page 2 of 14 Background predictive of genetic merit for BRD resistance within and Rates of dairy calf mortality remain high globally, ran- across cattle breeds. These active regulatory regions of the ging from 5 to 11% [1]. In Ireland, the mortality rate for genome can be identified since the surrounding chromatin dairy calves between 0 and 6 months of age is 5.4% [2], should be open and accessible by regulatory elements such while the pre-weaning dairy calf mortality rate in the US as transcription factors. is 7.8% [3]. Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) accounts Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin using se- for the largest proportion of dairy calf mortality between quencing (ATAC-Seq) is a novel technique [28] used for 2 and 6 months of age [4]. The global prevalence of BRD the identification of regions of open chromatin (ROCs). in dairy calves varies greatly between studies, and ranges Chromatin is open when it is in an uncondensed state from 3.5 to 40% [5–10]. (euchromatin) and is accessible to gene transcriptional BRD is a disease of the upper and lower respiratory machinery and DNA binding regulatory elements. When tract which results in the formation of syncytial cells in it is condensed and tightly wrapped around histone pro- the bronchiolar epithelium and lung parenchyma, and teins (heterochromatin), it is in an inactive and tran- clinical signs which include an elevated rectal scriptionally inaccessible state [29]. While we have temperature, increased respiratory rate, nasal and ocular previously identified key genes that are expressed during discharges, cough, dyspnea, decreased appetite and BRSV infection [22], there is a lack of information on depressive-like behaviour [11, 12]. Viral pathogens are the specific regions of the genome that regulate the re- generally responsible for the initiation of BRD and sec- sponse to BRSV infection. The identification of the re- ondary bacterial pathogens, many of which are normally gions of chromatin that are open in respiratory tissues commensal in the nasopharyngeal region of the upper during BRSV infection will indicate the genomic regions respiratory tract, often proliferate and exacerbate the that are transcriptionally active during infection. These disease [13–15]. regions may harbour DNA variants that affect the tran- Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV), an enveloped, scriptional immune response to BRSV and may allow negative-stranded RNA virus, is one of the primary infec- the inference of genotypes with superior resistance to tious agents responsible for the onset of BRD [16, 17]. BRD. The objectives of the study were to: (i) identify re- Despite BRD being a moderately heritable [18–20] multi- gions of open chromatin in the BLN of dairy calves ex- factorial disease influenced by genetic predisposing fac- perimentally challenged with BRSV and also in control tors, environmental conditions and husbandry calves, (ii) elucidate the chromatin regions which were management practices [10, 21], the available literature on differentially or uniquely open in the BRSV challenged the host genetic response to viral infections, including relative to the control calves, and (iii) compare the dif- BRSV, is limited. An understanding of the identity of the ferentially open regions with the locations of genes pre- variation within the bovine genome which confers vari- viously found to be differentially expressed in the BLN ation in resistance to BRD is needed to incorporate gen- in response to BRSV and with the locations of previously etic variants into breeding programmes designed to breed identified BRD susceptibility loci [18, 20, 25–27]. robust animals with increased resistance to BRD infection. In a previous study, we identified differentially expressed Results genes [22] and miRNAs (unpublished observations) in the Read quality, alignment and peak calling bronchial lymph nodes (BLN) (the site of antigen presen- ATAC-Seq libraries (n = 18) were prepared from fresh tation and activation of immune effector cells), of BLN tissue from BRSV challenged (n = 12) and control Holstein-Friesian calves experimentally challenged with (n = 6) calves and sequenced on an Illumina NextSeq BRSV. Additionally, the transcriptional response to infec- 500. An average (± SD) of 46,099,035 (± 8,156,367) (2 × tion with several pathogens involved in the bovine respira- 75 bp) paired-end reads (i.e., 23,049,517 sequenced frag- tory disease complex (BRDC) in BLN [23], lung and ments) were generated for each sample (Additional file 1). multiple lymphoid tissues [24] has previously been de- Approximately 96% of the reads were aligned to the scribed in US Angus x Hereford crossbred beef steers. UMD3.1 bovine reference genome assembly. Five per- However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the non- cent of the reads mapped to the mitochondrial genome protein-coding regions of the genome which are involved and 14% of the reads had a MAPQ score < 10. There in the regulation of the transcriptional response to BRD. were, on average, 4% of sequences that were duplicated Quantitative trait loci (QTL) and single nucleotide among the non-mitochondrial sequences with a MAPQ polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with BRD susceptibility score > 10. The average non-redundant fraction was [18, 20, 25–27] have been identified in dairy and beef cat- 82%. However, two samples (calf numbers 4 and 5 from tle. Among these QTL, the genetic variants which are lo- the control group) had considerably lower non- cated in the regulatory regions that are actively involved redundant fractions relative to the other samples, result- in the host response to BRD, are most likely to be ing in a higher percentage of samples with a MAPQ Johnston et al. BMC Genomics (2021) 22:14 Page 3 of 14 score < 10 (Additional file 1). This indicates that these mitochondrial or Y chromosome) genes (Add- samples contained a large number of reads which could itional file 3).
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